Born as Bernhard Peter Pock in Innsbruck, Austria, Europe in 1963, he was the son of actress Nancy Kwan and Austrian hotelier Peter Pock. Pock was born in Austria where his mother and father had opened a ski resort, but the marriage did not last long and the couple divorced in 1968. Kwan moved back to Hollywood where she had a two year marriage with Pock's stepfather writer and producer David Giler. Following the divorce Pock and his mother moved to Hong Kong to care for Kwan's ill father. In the late 1970s they returned to the United States where Kwan met her third husband and Pock's second stepfather, director, actor, and producer Norbert Meisel, whom she married in 1976. Kwan described Pock as "Bernhard, who had the blonde hair of his father and the delicate features of his mother." [1]

Pock met Debra Jane Lasley in 1990 and married her in 1992. Both unaware she had AIDS, he contracted HIV from her; she died of the disease shortly after they were married. [2] Pock died of AIDS in 1996 in Los Angeles, California, USA; he was only 33 years old. [3]

In 1997, Nancy Kwan published the autobiographical book Celebration of a Life - Memoirs of My Son for which she co-credited Pock as author. The book contains poems, writings, and letters depicting the life of Pock. [4]

In the 1990s he performed stunts in the science fiction comedy Space Invaders (1990, with stunts by David Michael Graves, Ronnie Rondell, Jr., and Gregg Sargeant), the western adventure Young Guns II (1990), the action film Fast Getaway (1991, directed by Spiro Razatos), the comedy Wayne's World (1992), the adventure The Last of the Mohicans (1992), and the crime comedy Sneakers (1992).

Pock worked as stunt coordinator on the action film Rage and Honor (1992, with Brian Thompson, Alex Datcher, Faith Minton, and stunts by Michael J. Sarna and J.J. Perry), the crime drama Dangerous Minds (1995, with John Neville and stunts by Jay Caputo), and the drama The War at Home (1996, with Geoffrey Blake). He was the stunt double for Mike Myers in the comedy So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993) and for Martin Short in the comedy Clifford (1994). Further film stunt work includes the comedy Loaded Weapon 1 (1993), the comedy sequel Wayne's World 2 (1993), the action film Last Man Standing (1995), the comedy A Very Brady Sequel (1996, with Olivia Hack and Whitney Rydbeck), and the horror thriller Thinner (1996, with Time Winters and stunts by Joey Box, Jay Caputo, Bud Davis, Michael Haynes, Lynn Salvatori, and Erik Stabenau).

In 1995, Pock made his directorial debut with the drama Rebellious for which he also wrote the story and appeared in front of the camera in the role of Jeremy Duff. His mother and his stepfather appeared in this film while Meisel also worked as producer on it. Actress Amber Tamblyn, a friend of Pock, wrote a poetry book in 2000 and dedicated it to Pock. [5]